Drolls [noun]

Drolls—comic or domestic tales which may or may not make use of the impossible, the marvelous, or the preternatural.

He studied under Peter Grebber and painted drunken scenes and drolls.

Many of the tales in this volume, as in similar collections for other European countries, are what the folklorists call Drolls.

There is scarce one of them without a veil, and a trusty Diego, who drolls much after the rate of the "Adventures."

The most notable of our drolls, Buckstone and Keeley, have been here, and have received a cordial welcome.

There is little except a few of the “drolls” which give the child pure fun unmixed with excitement or confusion.

When the Drolls were at hand, we saw very plain that they were Savages.

Clause, the vagabond beggar, was a popular favourite, reproduced in ‘Drolls.’

For there can be little doubt that these drolls have spread from East to West.

The case for Indian origin is strongest for drolls of this kind.